Digital Bits Insider's Guide to DVD

by Bill Hunt

Overview

Provides a DVD collection with the help website: The Digital Bits. This title is organized by genre: action, classics, chick flicks, music, and more. It features the DVD technology such as: D-VHS, HD-DVD, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071418522
Publisher:	T A B Books
Publication date:	09/26/2003
Series:	Digital Video and Audio
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I: Understanding DVD Part II: Building a Home Theater Made Simple Part III: Inside the Alien Quadrilogy Part IV: The Best of DVD (Great Discs Reviewed Here!) Part V: The Future of DVD Glossary Index

Editorial Reviews

THE INSIDERS' 'INSIDER'S GUIDE TO DVD'

The DVD celebrates its seventh birthday this month.

What better way to get the inside scoop about the format than from folks who have been there since the beginning, Bill Hunt and Todd Doogan? The editors of the Web site the Digital Bits, which started as an online newsletter in April 1997, have moved to hard copy with their 426-page book, "The Digital Bits: Insider's Guide to DVD". Using the same breezy banter that has made their site a popular DVD oasis on the Net, Hunt and Doogan comprehensively explore:

DVD basics:
Find out how the format works, what special features do and why widescreen is better.

Home theater:
Learn how to build an audio-video system that will make the most of your budget.

The "Alien Quadrilogy":
Go inside the making of the massive nine disc set of the "Alien" films with a 44-page blow-by-blow account of its creation.

Essential releases:
Drool over reviews of more than 100 must-have DVDs, including the extended "The Fellowship of the Ring," the three-disc "Toy Story" set and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

The future:
Get a sneak peek at what lies ahead. "The whole goal was to provide a comprehensive resource for newcomers and also to provide something for longtime DVD viewers," Hunt told me recently. Mission accomplished.
—Randy Salas

Minneapolis Star Tribune

THE INSIDERS' 'INSIDER'S GUIDE TO DVD'

The DVD celebrates its seventh birthday this month.

What better way to get the inside scoop about the format than from folks who have been there since the beginning, Bill Hunt and Todd Doogan? The editors of the Web site the Digital Bits, which started as an online newsletter in April 1997, have moved to hard copy with their 426-page book, "The Digital Bits: Insider's Guide to DVD". Using the same breezy banter that has made their site a popular DVD oasis on the Net, Hunt and Doogan comprehensively explore:

DVD basics:
Find out how the format works, what special features do and why widescreen is better.

Home theater:
Learn how to build an audio-video system that will make the most of your budget.

The "Alien Quadrilogy":
Go inside the making of the massive nine disc set of the "Alien" films with a 44-page blow-by-blow account of its creation.

Essential releases:
Drool over reviews of more than 100 must-have DVDs, including the extended "The Fellowship of the Ring," the three-disc "Toy Story" set and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

The future:
Get a sneak peek at what lies ahead. "The whole goal was to provide a comprehensive resource for newcomers and also to provide something for longtime DVD viewers," Hunt told me recently. Mission accomplished.
—Randy Salas